LOL, I'll have to look on our bill and see if we have one of those. Ours would be pretty high as, since we never leave the house. Are they trying to make you guys feel guilty or something? I guess they done believe in consumer privacy.

It can't be the same letter for everyone, because we DO use more energy, but what gets me is they don't ask how many in the household, we actually use less compared to the amount of people living here!

Very Big Brother-y . . . it definitely sounds like they are trying to make you feel guilty about using electricity. And I like the way the put "you" in all caps. As if you don't know who you are, you big energy hog. ;-)

I really dislike random statistics that prove nothing! I'd go through the house and flip all the lights on ... just because I can, lol.

Don't they just want you to have them come out and do an energy check so they can install energy-saving stuff and make more money? I think it's great that your large family used only 24% more energy instead of 75%!!! That's awesome! You're being totally economical!

Too funny. We had those letters often in our previous house but so far nothing at our rental (same state but different electric company). We really jumped in use when my husband found a work from home job!

Hubby and I are laughing out loud because we got the same letter last week! My first thought was, "Wow - I figured we'd be using WAY more than that!" We actually live in our home 24/7 with 7 children and hubby home offices - yep, we're all here all the time! We do spend a lot on gas and electricity, but what else are we going to do? We need to have heat and electricity, right?

Well, if it makes you feel any better, we got the same letter and we are using 30% more than are "most efficient" neighbors. And it is just me and my 1 year-old home during the day and we don't even have a dishwasher. But our home is super old and is very hard to keep warm, so I guess it makes sense! I was a bit bummed too, but hey, I thought at least we have heat...it could be worse! Way to go on only using 24% more than your neighbors, with 75% more people I thought the number would be higher as well!

I didn't take the time to read all the comments, but WOW! What if one house (like ours) has geo-thermal to offset some of the usage or if the home has a gas fireplace? It's completely NOT accurate at all. Definitely not apples to apples.

Wow! That's creepy. We have a much smaller family (only 3 children here on earth) and I bet our bill would equal yours if we had a bill. You should find out if you can get with Ambit electric. We're getting free electricity for signing up our friends and family. And they don't send us crazy Big Brother love letters either....that's a little much for this liberty-loving gal.

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